CURRICULUM VITAE 
Sabit Bagirov
Date of birth:              1948 
Place of birth:                         
  
Education: 
1985-1987 -    Defended
dissertation at the Institute of the Problems of 
Management,  
1972-1974 -    Post
graduate study at the 
1966-1971 -    Azerbaijan
Institute of Oil and Chemistry (now The 
Employment:
From  1994 till present - President, Center for Economic
and Political Research
From  1995 till present - President, Entrepreneurship
Development Foundation 
1993-1994 – head of the
department of the supreme attestation commission under 
         the auspices of the president of 
1992-1993 - President, State
Oil Company of 
1992-1993 - State Adviser
for Azerbaijani President for Strategic Programs
1977-1992 - Deputy Director
of the 
                     Company (AZNEFTXIMMASH) 
1974-1977 - Chief of a
laboratory at the same Institute
1971-1972 - engineer of the
oilfield machine-building technology Institute
Public activity:
                        2002-2004(June) – chairman
of the board of the OSI-Azerbaijan Foundation; 
                        2001-till present –
chairman of the board of Transrency 
                        2001-2003 – member of
the adviser-group on a Caspian Revenue Watch project; 
from May 2004 till present –
coordinator of the NGO Coalition in support of the 
EITI (Extractive Industry
Transparency Initiative)
                        
Languages:     Turkish,
Russian, spoken English.
Travel: 
Married, with three
children. 
Publications: 
1. Sabit
Bagirov, “On certain spheres of the journalistic monitoring of oil projects”,
the book: Coverning Oil Wealth (
2. Sabit Bagirov, Ingilab Akhmedov, Svetlana Tsalik, “State Oil Fund
of the 
3. Sabit
Bagirov, “Tovard Civil Society through the Development of Public
Associations”, the book: Enabling Civil Society. Pactical Aspects of Freedom of
Association (Public Interest Law Initiative, 
4. Sabit Bagirov, “Impact of Oil Revenues on the Azerbaijani Economy”,
the book: Oil funds: experiences of creation, activities and perspectives of
development (
5. Sabit
Bagirov, “